Dear Parents,
The penultimate week of the term has flown by so quickly. There is so much going on as we explore our own possible migrations (mini inquiry), develop our personal narratives, focus on our book clubs and make great headway with calculating the fractions of a set and strategies to add and subtract fractions. Please see this week’s Seesaw to see examples of your child doing all of the above.
Grade Trip
The numbers have increased rapidly over the last couple of days and we now have ‘25’ students who have committed to this wonderful trip. If you are still undecided, we strongly encourage you to allow your child to have this exciting experience with their friends. We look at this as the launch to the PYP Exhibition, where we will start the process as a strong Grade 6 community, it would really be beneficial for all students to be part of these first steps. There are some photos below of last year’s trip.
PYP Exhibition Survey – Thank you to those who have filled out this form. If you have not yet, please do, and help us understand how you would like the Grade 6 team to communicate about the Exhibition with you. Link
Next week in Grade 6
UOI: We’re starting our new unit of inquiry, Sharing the Planet. We’ll be looking at how ‘Empathy and effective communication can help to build harmonious and peaceful communities’.
- Drama Role Play – identifying problems and solutions
- Students will be identifying conflicts with themselves, in life, in their communities and in the world
- Revisiting our goals from earlier in the year
Maths: Continuing with Fractions
- Equivalent fractions
- Simplifying fractions
- Converting fractions from improper fractions to mixed numbers fractions (reversed)
Literacy: Continuing Personal Narratives
- Continue working on our stories
- Focusing on Dialogues – when and how to use speech marks
- When to start a new paragraph
- ‘Show Don’t Tell’ descriptive writing
Hope you have a wonderful weekend ahead,
The Grade 6 Team